OPEN AIR
After Party for Parking Day LA
September 19, 2008 7pm-11pm
To celebrate the success of Parking Day LA, Program12 will host Open Air the official after party in the courtyard of the A+D Architecture and Design Museum, located in the center of Museum Row across from LACMA and The Broad Contemporary Art Museum. Open Air continues the synergy of Parking Day LA by creating an environment that reminds urban residents of what is truly inspiring Living Space.
Guest will walk through an apple orchard that will lead to a virtual park brought to light by a selection of visual artist curated by Program12.
Artist include, Sheinina Raj+RAN (Clients include: LACMA Muse, Vice, UCLA, AIA/Los angeles), Paul Sangster of Future Lighting (Clients include:Apple, Coca Cola, CBS, Microsoft) and Linda Gravline (Clients include: LACMA, SCI-Arc, A+D Museum).
This sale features multiple stores from Orange County, which means you’re getting local businesses and therefore maybe more unique things. To list a few (or not so few), Lola Rouge, Goat, Patina, Harlow, Elle H, Holly Sharp, Stella, LANIS Boutique, Solutions, Trio, Rococo, Hannah Bean, La Diva, The Black Flamingo, Habit, The Flying Pram, Scout 3, The Den, Luxe Boutique, Wish Children’s Boutique, Tulum Island Boutique, Two Little Monkeys, Eye Society, Bundles and Bumps, The Queen Bee, Lola Rouge Kids, Red Sparks, CC Roo will be there. Wow!
Make next week a great week by getting some free tickets to go see a great show. LA.CityZine is giving away tickets to the following shows and all you have to do to win is sign up for our newsletter and leave a comment.
The Downtown Art Walk is a self-guided tour that showcases the many art exhibition venues in Downtown Los Angeles — commercial art galleries, museums, and non-profit arts venues.
Thursday September 11th, Jason Lee Perry and John Davis, and the Regent will showcase artists from Los Angeles and the “Beach Cities District.” The objective of this art walk is to explore the phenomenon of Pop Art/Lowbrow and Fashion Photography and the way these two pull so heavily from each other. The photography was selected on it’s merit of pop color and outsider/street influence and the fine art chosen in the way it applauds or lambastes the influence of mainstream fashion. Sounds like fun, eh?
The event takes place every second Thursday of the month in Downtown Los Angeles. The next will take place Thursday, September 11th, from 6PM- 11PM.
When the first track of Verona Grove’s, “The Story Thought Over” blasted out of my car speakers, I was quickly reminded of another review I recently wrote. Quickly, however, I realized that while the vocals were very Starting-Line, Homegrown, etc. etc. there was something far more interesting going on. The music was good, really good.
As the CD continued I realized just how off base my initial reaction was, “The Story Thought Over” is what a power pop album should be: at times loud, at times melodramatically slow and at all times insanely enjoyable.
Joan Baez gives us her rendition of the Day After Tomorrow, The Dark Romantics are Heartbreakers, and Gym Class Heroes knit us The Quilt. Here are your CD releases for the week! Joan Baez | Day After Tomorrow Eric Benet | Love & Life Calexico | Carried to Dust Catie Curtis | Sweet Life Colourmusic | f, monday, orange, february, venus, lunatic, 1 or 13 The Dark Romantics | Heartbreaker Michael Franti | All Rebel Rockers Fujiya & Miyagi | Lightbulbs Gym Class Heroes | The Quilt Iced Earth | The Crucible Of Man (Something Wicked Part II)
On a quiet Wednesday in the Los Angeles neighborhood of Culver City, a man was arrested and later released on $10,000 bond. Such an incident is no cause for concern in a city like L.A., however 27-year-old Kevin Cogill wasn’t arrested because he was peddling drugs or fled the scene of a hit and run or because he was involved in a domestic dispute, oh no. Cogill was put in jail and now faces not only 3 years of prison time, but $250,000 in fines because he posted nine leaked songs from an unreleased Guns N’ Roses album on his music blog in June. The songs from the album “Chinese Democracy,” which has been in the works for more than a decade were only available to stream and not download on Antiquiet, Cogill’s blog. The site ended up crashing and he removed the tracks after a couple hours when GNR lawyers complained.
Common Reaction represents the debut full-length release from Uh Huh Her, the synth-pop partnership between vocalist and multi-instrumentalist extraordinaire Camila Grey and vocalist/actress Leisha Hailey of “The L Word” fame. The album opens strongly with the catchy debut single, “Not A Love Song,” and the sensual, multi-layered “Explode.” The melodies fall a bit flat in the mid-section of the album, though; “Wait Another Day,” with its commitment to “waste another dream on you,” never quite moves into its final gear, and several of the songs successfully establish a mood but aren’t particularly tuneful.
It seems the girls had their fair share of issues to work out through this album; seven songs directly mention waste or loss. Yet despite the lyrical onslaught of disappointment, the album manages to remain well-paced and buoyant, with its ethereal, harmonized vocals and an array of pleasing synth textures. It’s pretty pop music, stylistically similar to Snow Patrol’s Eyes Open, that could have broken away from the pack with the help of a few more stand-out moments.
Well I’m not going to lie.Before I even went to The Cat Club for the Silent Treatment show August 16th, I knew it was going to be great.The energy, dedication, and passion that radiated from their album (that I had the pleasure of reviewing last week) was so heavily reflected in their live show that it blew my mind times ten.I think what struck me most is just the feeling that I was in the presence of rock stars.And honestly I haven’t felt that way at a show in a while.I mean, a lot of the shows I’ve gone to in the recent past have been chock full of emo hairstyles, skinny jeans, and that sort of hipster dance where you’re not quite sure if you’re allowed to show that you actually LIKE the song so you just sorta shake your tush for a while in sync with the mass of other unemotional hip kids around you.But this was such a far cry from all of that. [ Read The Full Story -> ]
When Parisian DJ Xavier Gassemann boasts, “You’re chillin’ with the Don Rimini, bitch,” he perfectly encapsulates the feeling of his Kick ‘N Run EP. The six-track offering, seems intent on pummeling listeners into submission while reminding them how much fun they’re having. The first and fourth tracks are basically collections of outlandishly arrogant soundbites, while the four actual songs are mostly overlong, hyperactive techno paired with nearly unintelligible words and phrases shouted ad nauseum.
“Ohow?” starts things off with some fairly catchy industrial synth riffs, and manages to avoid monotony.”Nervous Breakdown” does sound adequately paranoid, but after the first four minutes you start to wish he would just take his medication. “Rave On” is the stand-out track, with overloaded synths and an energetically danceable beat, punctuated by an emphatic chant of “We’ve come to kick your ass! (Ass! Ass! Ass! Ass!)” The closer, “Hools,” is mostly forgettable, and may even be capable of inducing mild headaches. The songs may find their place in a club setting, packed into a like-minded playlist, but for now Don Rimini may want to tone down the boasting until his music can speak for itself.
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